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Revision as of 19:19, 27 March 2014

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March 2014

The report of "vandalism" was an attempt by Misplaced Pages editors to bully the user. No vandalism from this IP occurred. This IP address is shared by a whole office full of people. To my knowledge none of these people have attempted to "vandalize" an article. At this point none of us know what that even means. Hi my name is Matthew Berdyck. I am not a Misplaced Pages user. I have a friend, and staff member, who tried to submit an article, about me, from his workstation in my office. My staff member expressed that he feels that my article is being rejected for personal or political reasons. He also states that members of your staff are bullying him. At that point I made two personal comments on the Help Desk page. That is the extent of my participation, here.

Over the last two days, in response to James statements, people your editors have repeatedly insulted me, accusing me of being a self promoter, that my work is "poorly sourced." I don't understand how I became a target. This IP address has been flagged for "vandalism." I can genuinely state that I don't know what that means, at all. I was also informed that my article was not approved because editors claim that my short film Poison in the Grapes is poorly sourced. After providing source to correct the statement the response was to insult my staff member and my work, again.

This is a publicly active film project. The statements from your Help Desk Editors can be used by opposition to my work. They can say, "Not even Misplaced Pages believes this guy." Things like this happen to me quite frequently. I believe that statement was placed on the talk page for the article for creation in an attempt to cause defamation and damage to my project. The statement has no merit whatsoever.

When I approached the help desk to clarify this they accused me of being James and then threatened to ban me for trying to resolve the "citation issue" for Poison in the Grapes. I don't understand why this is happening. You can clearly see evidence of insults and bullying, of me, all throughout the commentary. I want to state, again, for the record, that I have had no part of this. Can you ask your staff to please stop being aggressive with me?

I am left in a precarious situation now. Misplaced Pages has not publicly questioned the credibility of our research. That research is being placed in a national feature length film called Death Water narrated by Andrew Tiernan (300: Rise of an Empire, The Pianist). This means that Misplaced Pages has now established itself as direct opposition to my work exposing toxic waste dumps in residential neighborhoods. Since I am notable. These attacks are very damaging to my very reliable research, simply for personal reasons.

Can you please explain to me how to resolve or escalate these issues? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.189.170.139 (talk • contribs) 18:28, 27 March 2014‎ (UTC)

The note at the top of the page does not suggest that anyone using this IP has vandalised anything, it is a standard note for dynamic addresses and says clearly "Caution should be used when blocking this IP". Not commenting on the rest, just the misinterpretation of the note at the top which is in part a warning to Administrators but not a notice of vandalism. Dougweller (talk) 19:19, 27 March 2014 (UTC)